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then searched for a paper or parcel in | @ nook in the cesk

1 did not observe her closely until she tarned around facing me.* |

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‘Lame » the eaid, in the eame low! ‘ s we Se teaclunee’ Ot aside tan| Seeman aes the world, but not in the sight of heaven. 1/7”

HAVING failed ta manfully defend yourself against the charges of political deception and

was insane when I did the deed 3

Ingani'y has

ite conning—Ceil lum ite passionate sense of , “ treachery pre erred agains ot he Saw Mi revenge. They broke my heart, and destroyed yr & t you at th aw Mill i ; : Bridge meeting, vou new endeavor to cover your my bloom all the flowers oi my life. I am . ’ ce - retreat by attacking me through the columne of & men «ce even now, for I feel no terror in my ; é' es “| @ newspaper. Your literary performances ov crime Ll ba ug 'o ked for thie hour, and! ,, > cl the platiorm are, in all conscience, disereditable am realy forit. Ms dead body the law mary |

jenough; ia the presa they beggar criticiau, and have, but with no sense of shame.’ j are beneath contempt. What you lack in ability As ebe spoke she swallowed @ dull, grayish | and knowledge ia, buwever,fully made up in vena! leoking powder, threw up her arms, and fel

back in her eeat—dead !

mendacity aud gratuitous assertion.

I paes by

| with contempt the air of superiority affected in

—— ll DO > Om

A Telegraph Round tae word

as the laughable production of your Overveening

. ~n ; vanity aod presumption. Tguerent ar. The London Daily News of the 20th of! __ F ? at and vulgar persons like yourself sometiuves resort to that

Geovober, says: -“ The rapid develo nt | wove? } t te ment! gadge; men of education ard ability never.

the | It seems you do not agiee with me in the When we re | opinion that * Mr,

of sab-marine telegraphy is one of chief marvels of our age.

that mountebauk, without tollewers, an elapsed since the first experimental cable | Executive Councijor d epised by his collergues ! ' .

momber only twenty years have | gnorant was laid across the English Channe|, we | and a pe'itician whose published letters would shall better realize the extrsordinar that the coustructioa of a line between the | Pvt consider ¢his tanguage “ very elegant’; but American coast and the Empire of Japan js | YOU Mast remember that physicians invariably the only thing needed to cemplete th tele.) ¢@plvy that kind of medicive which is best eal- yraphie circle of the globe. Then ssing | “4 sted to remove disease, torster to you in the language Which should be | used towaras a sebolar and a gentleman, such form of expression you could not understand and you certainly would not feel.

You seem te be much elated at your present

link in this splendid chain of interceamu- nication 1s about to be supplied by Mr. Cyrus Fivi-l, of Atlantic Cable celebrity, w o has projected a line from Victoria, the capital; of Vancouver's Island, to Hakodadi, im}. Japan and from thence to the R $8120! 2y hovorable You owe your seat in the naval station on the coast of Asia where | Legislature to other acd wore powe

ane,

ie Wire penetrates to St. Petersburgl, and | exceedingly barren eve; you beve the reputation is united with every part of the great) ot teing a mers pot-house politicians your name European system. This new line the esti-|'% net connected with any useful or creditable mated jength of which is 4370 nautica]! 'ez'slation, and you are utterly incapable of or- mi es, willtouch at Atcha one of the Aljeu-)}'¢:28"/9% any Measure beuebcial to the country, tian Ielands. A second route projected br Whilst led by Messra Colea, Whelan and Mr. £i>'d is identical with the first, as far | e?s!*¥: de" committed no very serious political as Atcha from which place, however, it! . : pursacs a more southerly eourse until ios rhea oT e pete pes

oe ay aint : ouse of Asseubly. When by accident you makes dantl at Yoknhama —a distance from |

: ‘ : | were constituted a kind of semi leader of a pow the Un:ied States of 4,235 miles. From! °

| blunder, though your ignorance and imprudence

j litical party, your incapscity at once became ' j : i SC “ily as ‘ Ty >

Tok ob ama it cle cribes a = = om of */ apparent, and coupled with your treachery and circle until it teaches Share nai—a f ther widacity, caused, in a few mouths, the disruption dstacce of 1010 miee. Returning to the | of your followers,

Japanese cig another Granch crosses the Island of Niphen aed the Japan Ses, and jeins the Russian lines at Possietie. A| On that question you caused the defeat of two of third and last route starts from Sa. Fian ()°er own party, Messrs. Bell ond George

‘oHulry #8 an advocate for Sectarian Schools,

cisco, traverses the North Pacific to Hono-| *!#"5 (We better, and I have no doubt, more |

lulu, in the Sandwich Islands. « inecta | “ligions men than yourseli, The constituency from | °° which you appealed was in favor ef tke

this group with Midway Island an snag att 4 : thence jourpcys to Yokohama—a total dis ene ae mys the Gath .of tance of 5,073. mies. Making an allow ie faa. eee ees

How!ap is a political babe, an |

fact | dgroece & ter-veareold schoel boy.’ You éo|

It weuld be useless |

‘political position.”’ although st is anything but | . ne | Catholies of Prince Edward Is'and to have the!

cful influences | across the steppes of Siberia the telegraph | than your own, and your polltical record is an!

At the last general election you went to the

you bring your coerelgioniste into still further con- tempt ty continuing to put yourself corward as their political leader? And what kind of opinion will be entertained ef the desciples whose teacher you ara? The estimate will certainly not be very comp'imentary to them. Pray save them that reproach, a» you cannot longer trade on the School question.

Your assertion that I contested elections on different and inconsistent politrcal principles is utterly uatrue, and your statement of the cause of my opposition te the Government is equally false.

1 shall now bare done with yeu for tke pre- sent. I feel that L have devoted too much at- teution te you, and I fearitis too much to hope that wnything I bave written will have the effect of j I have no doubt but you , Will preserve your consistency to the last, and

lessening your vanity.

your letter published in last Monday's Examiner, that as you became a member of the present

Government, by betraying your co-religionete, | you will, if permitted, retire from the political | stage, by seliing your country.

W W SULLIVAN Ch'town. Nov, 29, 1871.

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| CHINIQUYISM. i To THe Epitok oF THE EXAMINER.

Sin,—Ae you have published in last Eraminer the article from the Record of the Presbyterian Chureh, I wonder will the Hera/d still insist that it Chiniquy Missionaries being at Rol'o Bay and | Fouris, coaverting the Freneh people in those | places to Chiniquyiem? Will the Herald sti)) |deny that Elder Laird is not the agent of the above named Record, that defames the French Catholie pepulation of thia Island and Nova Scotia? Whata fine thing it will be for the

never published anything concerning the

Elder as their political Leader!!! Will the Herald still deny that the Presbyterian uews. |paper, prioted by Mr. Laird, did not contain speeebes of Mr. Laird himself, and different Reverend D vines, proving the evils ef Convent education in this Island? and wil! it deny that in the saine nuusber of said Presbyterian, printed by aaid Elder Laird, that there was a letter from Chin'quy himself, blackguarding the yourg women for going to confession to Bachelor Prieste ?

Will it etiil insist that eaid Presbyfecien news-

paper publishes nothing derogatory te the Catho- lie Religion? and will any persen believe that David Laird is not the individual that prints ard publishes all those libels against everything {sacred belonging to the Catholie Church ¢

Ob! but says the Hera/d, Mr Laird does all

this for pay, the same as you, Sir, print an ad-

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vertieewent for pay. I must stop; it is dieguast- ing to think or believe that there ia any Catho- lic s9 depraved as to defend exch villainy Yours, &c, LK. R. Rollo Bay, Dec. 1, 1871. ——_—_ <a —_ -———— To rue Exiron of 108 Examiner.

ance of 20 per cent for slack, the length of |

8,465. This calculation of course iiuplies|

that each line will terminate at Possiette, | they would, to violate their hustings’ pledgvs in |

which is 1,480 miles from Yokohamn. As|

the leading statesmen of Russia have al-| not to cease agitation till the principle of Sec |

ways exhibited a keen appreciation of the}

practical value of the telegraph, it is not) ¢'ement, and granta obtained tor all the Catholic |

surprising that they should take the deep- | est interest in a collusal enterprise which when carried out, will bring St. Peters-|

burg into instantaneous coumunication,not |'*® Web you proclaimed tu be pagan and |

only with Japan, but also with th chief| cities of the American Union. As soon as! either of the routes which we have been! able authoritatively to describe is com pleted the earth wil be belted wit! tele gtaphic cables. When * Pucks’s girdle’ | has spanned the Pacific, it wili be easy! enough to send a message round the globe in forty minutes—a sufficiently near reali- zation of the great dramatist’s oft quoted line to make his fancy appear pro) hetic. We may also add that it is in contempla tien to lay a cable between Honolulu and} the Australian colonies thereby estab ishing | direst iatercourse hetween Melbourne and San Francisco This line is thus divided :— San Francisco to Hono ula, 2 093 nautical miles; Honoluia to Fiji Islands 2.950; Fyi to New Caledonia, 810 ; New Caledonia to Srisbane, 8000 — 6 653; add 20 per cent for slack, 1331- length of cabe 7 894 nautical miles. Brisbane is alreacly con nected by land lince with Syduey. Mel beurne. and Adelaide, also with Port Barwin ot the north coast, from which piace a ‘ine to Java is under contract for! evnstruction. The Dutch ‘Colony is now in| ¢irect re'ation with the India and Chinese , cables ¥

An American Estimate of Sir Alexand Cockburn.

The English arbitrator m the con vention of Geneva, Sir A'exander Cockburn, is as) most of our readers know, the for] chief Justice of England. He 1s not only pro found y learned in the law, but has much of the statesman’s capacity, and exhibits in his cece sioua remarks to counse’, plain- tiff or defendent, a rare knowledge of hu- man nature. When at the bar, he was famous for his management of stupid, ob- durate and tricky witnesses, and ‘or the thorough manner in which he identified himself wiuh bis client. He was as much | the actor as the advocate ; and his powers) in this line were such that Douglas Jerrold | or Thackery we have forgotten which—| once remarked: “In my time, I have heard Sir Alexander in pretty near! y every part 1 have heard him asan old man and | an o'd woman. I have beard him when | he has been a ship run down at sea and | when be has been an oil factory in a state of conflagration. Once, when | was fore yoan of a jury, 1 saw him poison jis most) intumate friend, and ancther time he did) the part of a pious bank director in a fash-| fon that would have skinned the eyelids of Exetor Hall He is not bad as a desolate) widow with nine children, of which the | oldest is under eight years of age. but if| ever I have to listen to bim again [ shou!d ) like to see bum as a young lady of good connections, who has been sgduced by an| ofticer in the Guards.’ What an intellee-| tual con‘rast his Lordship offers to the | American arbitrater, Chares Francis, Adams —Bosion Courier.

2-0 E—_— ——

Winter ie now fairly uyon us and the teams

are hastening to the lumber woods ip various

same air with you.

lto whom yepr admiring countrymen, with hope-

School question

jeleoted. After the election you still pretended / to favor the same cause, and by your wmacbi- | cable required for the first route 1s 5 244 natious broke up the Liberal party, because | the following, wiitten in a very great burry, miles; for the second, 5 244; for the third |seme gentlemen representing Protestant con-| obliges

stituencies refused, as you all along well knew the matter, tarian Schouls shou'd be acknowledged by Gov-

educational establishments in the Colony, You cond-imned as ‘heretical ' @ statement io my

vleccion card in favor of cur preaeut school ey sq!

i.fidel. .

Now, in the face of all iessions and open declarations, what means did you adopt to secure what you asserted to be the object of your desres? You abandoned the politicians with whew you had always been con- nected, joined yuur political opponents, associat- ed yourself with men, some ef whom hed charactereized you as“ a pulitical blackguard,” and one of whow declared, in his place in Par- liament, that he considered himeelf diegraced by sitting in the eame Houre and breathing the What did you gain for your co religionists by atl this personal humiliation ? NoruinG! absolutely nothing! And you were obliged to give your written pledge that you

You expressed yoor determination |

these loud pro-|

Dear Sir;— Please publish in your next iseue

and — — East Point, Dee. 1, 1871. “Retribution,” in the last Herald, Alias | Danie! MeDonald, late Post @ffice Clerk, appeare | to think there is not an Irishinan at Eaat Point whe can wield the pen or defend the right. | Dan is well known here and [ will let him see | shortly, that he does not reflect tbe sentiments o! | all the Catholics of East Point; he may be per-

fectly cognizant of the views and opinions of a | few restless, disappointed persons. who live in

| the immediate vicinity of the needle point of the | Island, but be need not think that he can enswer | for the Catholica, from the extreme East Point te Souris Weet; and I tell bim be bad better | make a tour of that portion of the Island, aud‘ he

will flad it wou'd have been better for his pros- | pects of office, if he bud adhered te his first love, | and shunned the society in which he is now | found, That there ie an Iriebmen at East

Point, and scores of them ready to defend the

| actions of the Government, he will find ere long. | ;

Yours, AN IRISHMAN. ||

«mee

To tHe Epito« OF THE Examiner.

Sir ;—It is the duty of the Catholic members |

would sink in oblivion the very principle for the noreacknowledgement of which you had separe| ated from your Liberal allies. Read the record | of your politieal infamy. It is as followa;—

* Meu’ of the policy to be pursued by the) goverment about to be organized by the Hoa, } Jamee C. Pope. on the question of Denomination il and 8 -ctariaa Schools aod Contederation:

$1. No grants of public movey any denex.inativonal or sectarian school,

* 2, Tue question af Confederation net to be agitated, ner any propositions of Uuion te origi- nate from the government of the eolony, but | should the Imperial Guvercment or the Dominion | Government propose terms of Union, they shall) not be acerpted without firat appealing to the | people at the poile,’ |

There is a mocument of your s'atesmanship | intents and purposes, an open gnestion. It is

ana ability. Shame, eternal ebame upon you! You assert that paganism and iufidelity are ram- vant through the land, and yet you—the self constituted champion of religious education, the meek and modest Christian, the political Moses

ful hearts, looked up fer the blessings of religion pure and undefiled, instead of giving them the bread they serght, gave them worse than a atone, and actually bound yeurself not to ask what you bad declared was necessary for their soul's salvation. Enough,Sir! Apart from the language of irony, it is plain that no politician ever actad en any public matter wilh more treachery aud deception than you have done on the Schoel question. Yet with characteristic efrontery, you, whe have sold your own con atitnency, and every other one in the Island holding a.mtlar oploions, prate about ‘* double. dealing. seiling the riguta sod liberties of con- stituencies, &e.” Is it true, sir, that you induced your Catholic colleagues to eign a * bond,” the terms of which bad been previously arranged by you and vue or ‘we of those te whom yeu sold yourseli, an the delusive prowise that at some én- definite period public grants would be given to Ca:bolie schools? Your conduct on the Railway question somewhat explains your action on the and in connection with Mr Jawes Pope's vote is your favor at the last gene. ral election goes far to make believe that you had completed your arrangewents leng before your Catholic supporters in the Legislature saw the precious memorandum by which you settled for Prince Edward Island, the important subject of religious education,—a subject which, in your owe eluguent and app: opriate language, occupies “the attestion of some of tho ablest minds on both sides of the Atcantic as well as im Europe.” Nothing better could be expected from you, who whilst professing to be an Anti-Confederate, endeavored, when Mer. TJley was here a couple of years ago to sell your cquatry, by trying to in- duce leading Catholics in Chetlottetown to, sup- port Contederation, on conditien of getting a railway threngh the Island: Having failed in| that, you favored a railroad on the prodable

of the Legislature to insist on having a Grant | given to our College, in proportion to our popa- | lation, and that of the Prince of Wales College ; and I am sure that there is sufficient fib: ral) minded Pretestants in the Legislature te admit, | in their place. the justice of our dewanda Neither are members of the Legislature any |

to be given to| jonger bound by their signatures to that foolish ;

Meworandum, especially sinee it is the order of | the day, with the Opposition, to eneourage as | mauy as they can to violate their obligations, fur | the purpose of ousting the present Government, so that they may step into their places. The | Schocl Question is therefore, from this ont, to all consequently tbe dety of al of them who are en- duwed with the least sense of justice, to see that we get our fair share of the public money, for undoubtedly it is our right. and nothing else wil! ever satisty us

Therefore, let it be agitated in every legitimate way until justice is dene ne, There 1s not the least doubt but there sre enough of honest Protestants who will ulUimately assiet ns for that

purpose. Yours, McI. Heod St, Peter's Bay, Nov. 28, 1874. i

CHARLOTTETOWN, Nov. 28ib 1871, To the Editor of the Panriot.

Sir,—In your paper of the 25th inst., you bave thought proper to introdues my name ae well as that of my son as connected with the En- gineering department of the Railway, and attack J. C. Pepe as having imported one of bis rela- tious from New Brunswick to the exclusion of the young men of this Island. In the first place Mr. Pope did not know ef my son's coming here; he had been employed tw years inthe Inter- colonial Heilway, in connection with Mr, Cox; and when that gentleman came here and wan‘ed an Assistant, knowning my son was competent, be bad bim telegraphed for to come over, and al- | though I say &, I doubt very much if you have a young mag on the Island who could have taken hie place, better educated, or of better character generally, But Sir, you go further anck say this yourg wan’s Father ia a friend or connection of J C. Pope acd ask what claim has be upon the Island? Ip avewer to this I have to say that he or any other employee bas no claim beyoud doing

But if you are going to measure the patronage of |

the Railway Department by the claims of the natives of the Island, [ think you have madea great mistake when you attack the Government and my son on that score. In the first place ] aw a nativeof this Island, ard have had large} transactions with it particularly when I ran my |

Political Meeting at Georgetown. } The adjourned Meeting of the electors of Georgetown and Royalty, was held in the new Court House, on Friday evening, the 24th inst., at 6 o'clock, D. Fraser, Esq., in the chair. A

number of electors from other districts attend- |

ed, and a strong force~Government and Oppo- sition—mustered from Charlottetown. Hons, J.C. Pope, E. Palmer, F. Brecken, A. A. Mc- Donald, L. C. Owen, E. McKachen, J. Wightman, Messrs. W. W. Sullivan, D, Currie, R. Shaw, W. Sanderson and others, addmssed the meeting. The chairman stated that the object of the meeting was to approve af or condemn the course taken by the Representatives of George- town, in withdrawing their support from the Government, Mr, Munro said, that he felt it his duty to his

constituents and the country. at large, to sup- vort the Government nolonger. He entertained he highest respect for the gentlemen compos- ing the Executive, and felt; it aa honor to have been once allied with them; but as a verdict has been pronounced against them, throughout the length and breadth of the land, and as he had a political reputation to establish, he could not conscientiously support them. He did not ac- cuse them of dishonesty, directly, and found no |fanit with them until after the prorogation of | Parliament. He was stillan ethusiastic Railway man, but he wanted the road built honestiy. He claimed for himself a share of the honor of | having introduced and passed the Bill Jast ses- }sion. He did not condemn the Government on |personal grounds. His chargés were: Ist— |spruce sleepers; 2d—lengthening of the road ; | 3d—terminus at Charlottetown ; 4th—changing the route through Strathalbyn to favor the con- tractors. He also referred to Mr. Duncan’s appointment. These several charges were dwelt upon by Mr. Munro in a calm, dispassionate tone

Hon. J. C. Pope, as Leader of the Government thought it his duty to answer the charges. He felt sorry that the Georgetown members had withdrawn their support from his Government. He spoke in the highest terms of the Represen- tatives of Georgetown, and the support he re- ecived from them last session. In answer tothe first charge brought by Mr. Munro, he mention- ed several roads in which spruce sleepers were used, and said it was never the intention of the Government that the road should be entirely built of spruce. He read the letter of Mr. Schreiber, in the Islander, stating that not more than twenty-five per cent. of the sleepers would be spruce, The length ofthe line coul? not yet be determined, and he expressed it, as his opinion, that it would not exceed 120 milrs. The terminus at Charlottetown was not yet de- cided upon, but he belisved it would prove more beneficial to have the line run x!ong the heads of He denied that th

a

route was changed to favor the coutractors—it was to favor the interests of the country at large. He said thet the road would be honestly built, and that he had no other object in view but the promotion of the welfare of the Colony. He repudiated the idea of his connection witha Ring, and said he was prepared to defend his actions before the proper tribunal—the Parliament. He wou'd not give up the reigns of power until the meating of the Honse; for any other conduct would be a tacit admission, on the part of the Government, of the exi+tance of corruption and dishonesty in | carrying out the Railway policy,

all the wharves, }

Mr. Pope’s speech was attentively listened to, and made avery good impression on the audience. | ‘Then followed a long and animated discussion, able speeches were made on both sides—charges were broughtagainst the government and denie'; |aliusions were made to subjects foreign to the fobject of the meeting,—among which were :— {the Ring, O’Brien, Burpee, Boyd, Spruce Sleep- ers, Stumps, Crooked Line, Oat Ring, the Press, Peter Mitebell, Fraser, Sir John A. and the state of his health, Confederation, Election in Charlottetown, Local Patronage, Tecants’ Com- pensation Bill, &c., &e.

The assembled electors listened patiently to this discussion, and at half-past four, on Satur- \day morning, John Scrimigeour, Esq., moved, and Michael Hessian, Esq., 8 di.ded a Resolu- tion condemz.ing the Government in strong terms. This Resolution, at the request of Mr. Munro, was withdrawn. Mr. Munro then submitt-d the following :-—

Whereas the Government agreed that one Reilroad should be built with spruce sleepers, in @ country where we have cedar and juniper, and there are grounds for believing that the road will be unnecessarily lengthened on ac- count of making it so crooked, thereby entailing an unwarreutable eutlay of puilic money, and other reasons, therefore

Resolved, that our representatives, Messrs. Moar and Munro, had good grounds for with- drawing their support from tho Government.

Wm. Sanderson, Esq., moved, and C. Owen, Esq., seconded the following:

V Aereas the present Coalition Goverament bay- ing passed a Railway Act, with che approval of this constituency, and having let the contract, and the werk of builaing the road is heing vigor- ously carried forward, and whereas the members of this Town and Royalty, after-supporticg the Government ip the passage of eaid Bill, have thought proper to withdraw their suppor’ during a recess, thereby showing a want of judgment end Parliamentary knowledge unbecoming the Representatives of this constituency, who nF ee with alarm an atiempt being made to hana over the Government toan Opposition not capable of successfully carrying out the railway policy

| with justice tu this constitusmey; therefore

Resolved, That this meeting express their di’.

japproval of the course pursued by their wembers

in deserting the Government without the con- sent of their constituents, and thcreby attempting to hand over the Government to an Opposition who bave hitherto been opposed to the poliry of the Government with respect tothe Railway to Georgetown.

Mr. Sanderson’s amendment was put and with great difficulty the Chairman declared it lost. ‘Yhree cheers were give for the Representatives, three for the Government, and three for George-

wn. After a yote of thanks was civento the Chair- man, the meeting dispersed. T. McDonaxp, Sec’y. Georgetown, Nov. 25.

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Late Celegraphic Aelus. London, Noy. 24

Eight persons were killed by the colliery explo- sion on Wednesday.

The English ship “ Nonpariel” from Bombay for New York foundered July 20th; all but three of the crew drowued.

Madrid papers state that England 18 ready to re ceive favorab’e proposals from Spuin for the res- toratlon of Gibraltar.

Brusse's despatches say excitement continues The mob to-day broke the windows of the obnox- ious members of the Chamber

A large number of the sympathizers of the ex- Emperor to-.ay wade a demonstration in Paris They traversed the Faubourg St. Germain with shouts of ‘Vive Napoleon.? There was vo inter- ference by the Government ‘Two French Fri- gates are crnsing off the French ports nearest Eng

| jand to prevent Napoleon's landing.

New York, Nov, 24.—The cable “eports conso!s 935-3 Breadstuffs quiet.

The conditioa of the Prince of Wales is enchang ed. Some apprehension of an unfavorable change is expected especially as bis father died of a similar complaint. There are ramors on Change, that the case is worse than the Palletins represent.

Fenian procession and meeting in Cork last night, in honor of Martiu. No distnrubace.

New York, Nov 24.

Grand Duke Alexss visited the Nuval Academy at Annapelis yesterday and returned to New York

London, Nov 25.

A despatch from Alexandria, Egypt, says “a

| Steamer from Aleyria, with pilgyims on beard on

their way to Mecca, wae run into here yesterday Seventy lives were lost, but none were Europ- eans.”’

The official bulletin published this morning eays ofthe Prince of Wales; © Symptoms were more favorable yesterday. The patiewt was easier dar-

his work and receaving a tair remuneration, |ing the day; after dark the fever increased. His

Royal Highness, however, passed a comfortable night.”’

The French Government has furwarded a notifi extion to the English anthorities of its determina- tion to terminate the Treaty of Commerce detween France and Great Britain. ;

A despatch from Berlin saya, considerable un- easiness exists in the public mind, concerning the

{ ° Line. Mr. Laird has told the people of Ohe & NAM? ,Rassa and Rona, and the country generally, | ° | that the Railroad is going to overwheim us

= = ee = with taxation, and going to plunge us into Ch’town, December 4, 1871. Confederation, and a hundred other evils, See ——-—--———--- |“too numerous to mention.’”’ He was PATROTISM. elected to Parliament especially to stop the — | Railroad. When he gets into the place and

_ Tr has often been discussed, whether power upon which, he imagines, he has patriotism is acquired, or a natural endow- yeached the threshold, he will find that his ment. We admit ‘hat this is a question eonstituents will remind him of his promises difficult to determine. Patriotism is, prob- fe must say to them: Gentlemen, I ably, partly acquired and partly the gift of would stop the Railway if I could; I would nature. That which inspires a people with’ not be in a Government, nor a supporter of blind devotion to their country, is doubtless one that earries on such a ruinous work ; more of a natural product than an acquired hut bad as it is, the Contract for building it one, On the other hand, a qualified sub- js made, and the breaking of it would cost mission of the citizen to the claims of the such heavy damages, that we must let it go state, and an intelligent abnegation of sel- on, They might answer, very well Mr. fish calculations, are probably acquisitions, | Laird, but can you not repeal the law, and the result of a correct estimate of what is stop the branches? If he did not answer essential to the general interests of a that he would, his political career, in that nation. This is a certain amount of liberty part of the country, would be doomed. If that a good citizen is willing to sacrifice for, he said he would prevent the branches the general good, being built, and did not try with his whole We were led into the above train of might to do so, he would be a traitor to thought, by reading the last Herald's fre-| them. But we will not suppose that he quent and loud professions of patriotism. | would not earry out the wishes of his con The Editors of the Herald, in a half a dozen stituents; we are most firmly persuaded, 'editorals—in last week’s issue—proclaims and have the most abundant reasons to be- his love for his country, and his anxiety lieve that if he could he would “stop the about “the unconscionable waste of public | Railway,” much more the Branches to ‘money—the jobbery and corruption prac-| Souris, St. Peter’s and Tignish. The tised on every hand-—the tyrannical disre-| people of these places are really in a spect for the people’s wishes, and the huge| dangerous position, so far as _ their ‘debt, contracted through a reckless expen-| best interests are concerned. It is not im- ‘diture, and which bids fair to cripple the| probable that Mr. Laird will come into colony for long years to come.’’. Such ex-' power, and he will be raised to power by pressions sound well, and did we not know the very representative who knows all this, the writer, we would feel like taking) and who, at all sacrifices, should not allow him by the hand, and congratulating him | St. Peter's especialiy to be betrayed. Mr. upon the honesty and manliness of his po-| Reilly might wish to have the branch to St. sition. As it was, we began to speculate up- Peter's, but what will his wishes amount to on Reilly's stock of patriotism ; whether it| with a government that must depend for | was acquired or innate. We concluded that: jts existence upon the behests of Rassa and the ex-Queen’s Printer, having no bright Rona! In theso-called “new government,” youthful associations to hold his native| Laird would be the guiding spirit; Reilly land in affectionate remembrance, his gush-| the merest parasite. One would be the ing professions of patriotism are not, at all) backbone, the other an excresence to be events, natural. Is it then acquired ? We cut off whenever a suitable opportunity of- ‘have already detined acquired patriotism to/ fered. Laird would be the sturdy oak ; | be the amount of discomfort and suffering | Reilly the broken reed. Laird’s policy 'a well-disposed citizen is prepared to un-| would predominate ; Reilly’s would be to dergo for the general good. We cannot for | whimper in public, and to chuckle over his ‘a moment conceive of Mr. Edward Reilly’s| share of his “public plunder” in private. being put even to inconvenience, much less | Rassa and Rona would rejoice ; St. Peter's | suffering, for the benefit of his fellow citi-|and Souris may have to bitterly regret. We have now done our duty by pointing out

the almost certain disasterous results to the

zens. It was looked upon by the old

Roman, in the infaney of his country, “to people towards the eastward, if Mr. Laird should come into power. Ali along we

diminish his substance, not the part of a man, but of a widow-woman.”’ Ouramiable

friend of the Herald seems to have inherited ‘the greed of the old Roman, without the |honor and manliness eharacteristic of that sturdyrace. Self-interest is the main spring of all his actions, and self the object of all his devotion. It must be confessed, that he might have chosen a more captivating idol to worship, but there is no accounting |for some men’s tastes, nor for some wo- ! men’s, either.

One thing is certain, that Mr. Reilly’s patriotism is neither innate nor acquired. It is counterfeited, like that gentleman’s orstory. This accounts for his noisy pro- fession of undying love for his country. In ancient times, on the death of a party, his relatives hired mourners to celebrate his sepulture with becoming honors. It was observable that these mourners were more noisy in their lamentations than those who grieve from the heart. So it is with the weeping philosopher of the Herald. He is attempting to make the people believe that |he is bleeding on account of their suffer- igs. Poor Reilly, what intense agony he aenst endure!

The gelebrated Dr. 8. Johnson, while annoyed anc! disgusted with the loud and boastful declaretions of assembling patriots, enunciated the propos‘tion, that, “patriot- ism was the last retuge of ® scoundrel.” The tyrants, who are planning the destruc- tion of a free people's liberties, and the leveller, who declaims against tyrann¥ and the inequality of property, being al. ke their nefarious work, by proclaiming their love for the sufferers and down-trodden people. To come nearer home, is there any one among us ¢o simple and credulous as to believe that the ex-Queen’s Printer is work- ing for the benefit of the people, or that he is actuated by one single patriotic motive? He, doubtless, thinks that by such means, he can divert public attention from his own iniquitous conduct. It is by such jugglery as this, that he hopes to de- ceive the people of St. Peter’s. They know him too well, by bitter experience, to allow him to impose on them any longer. At first, St. Peter’s district returned him to the House of Assembly 2 bitter anti-Confeder- ate, but no sooner did he secure his seat, than he advocated the measures which be- fore the people, he not only condemned, but denounced those who then supported them, as traitors. At the approach of the suc- ceeding election, dreading to encounter an outraged and deceived constituency, he made an abject but timely recantation. Even his suppliant attitude then would not have saved him from utter defeat, were it not for some underhanded scheming, dis- honorable alike to Mr. Reilly and to some of his professed political opponents. The people were, at all events, surprised and disgusted at the result of that election, by seeing the most unpopular candidate re- turned, with a small majority. Verily, Mr. Reilly is a capital patriot, and makes a good thing out of the business.

What would be the Railway Policy of the Laird & Reilly Coalition ?

Ir in an odd freak of the turnings of the political Wheel of Fortune the Laird & teilly Coalition should come into power, it would be aserious matter for the people of Souris and St. Peter’s especially, to reflect upon the probability or improbability of their having Railway Branches. Mr. Laird represents a District that never wanted the Railroad, beeause it has abundance of ship- ping facilites, Souris and St. Peter’s have the utmost need of Railway communication.

have advocated the interests of that part of the country. We were never fully satisfied that the branches were not included in the first contract. If Mr. Reilly were true to |his constituents, it might have been done. |If the government could not, or would not earry out his firm demands to have them in the first contract, that was his time to break from them. But he let the golden oppor- tunity slip—so far as he is concerned—we beleive forever. But it is not yet too late for the branch lines to besecured. Though Reilly has gone too far in binding himself with Laird, yet, Messrs. Hooper and Mc- Lean, if they take a proper stand, can pre

vent the impending evil to their con- stituents. If they can not support the pre- sent Government, they can prevent any other government from being formed that will not naost solemnly and publicly pledge itself to give their constituents branch lines. Whether a government giving such a pledge, with Rassa and Ronain the back- ground, would be long lived, only the great future can decide. Whatever the upshot may be, the interests of the Belfast district, and Souris, and St. Peter’s districts on the Railroad question, are directly opposed; and it is evident that instead of a Laird & Reilly Coalition existing any length of time, either one or the other must go to the wall.